Program Notes
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture Tchaikovsky softly evokes Friar Laurence and the chants of the cloister in opening his Romeo and Juliet Overture. After modulations and suspensions (notes that may clash but then give way) suggest Romeo’s early feelings about “love [being] a smoke raised the fume of sighs,” Read more…